Title: On directions and operators
Speaker: Malabika Pramanik (University of British Columbia)
Abstract: Many fundamental operators arising in harmonic analysis are governed by sets of directions that they are naturally associated with. What are some of these operators? Why are they important? How do direction sets affect their behaviour? This talk will survey a few representative results in this area, and report on some new developments.
Biosketch: Malabika Pramanik is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her interests include harmonic analysis, complex variables, and partial differential equations. She is the 2015-2016 winner of the Ruth I. Michler Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and the 2016 winner of the Krieger-Nelson Prize awaded by the Canadian Mathematical Society. She will be a Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in 2018-2019. She is also the recipient of a Killam Research award and a Killam Teaching award from the UBC Faculty of Science.
Pramanik studied statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute, earning a bachelor's degree in 1993 and a master's in 1995. She then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a doctorate in mathematics in 2001. After short-term positions at the University of Wisconsin, University of Rochester, and California Institute of Technology, she joined the UBC faculty in 2006.
Colloquium URL: https://web.math.osu.edu/colloquium/
